It just goes to show that being born royal and wearing designer clothes is no guarantee of good manners. They seem incredibly proud of the fact that their Crown Prince publicly displayed the worst royal manners seen in decades! Insulting your guests at a Formal Reception is incredibly vulgar.

Since speeches are written in advance of such occasions this was a calculated and deliberate slap in the face to Prince Charles and to Her Majesty and her Government. How lucky we are that Prince Charles knows a political manoeuvre when he sees one and did not take the opportunity to deploy his well honed wit and spontaneously reciprocate.

I thought the Spanish Royal Family had more "class".

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